The crisis rocking the All Progressives Congress (APC) over the leadership of the 9th Senate may be farm from over as Senator Ali Ndume insists on contesting Senate Presidency.
Ndume made his position know after meeting with Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo at the Presidential Villa on Monday.
Although the agenda of the meeting was unknown to State House correspondents, Ndume denied that he entered an alliance with the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to help him clinch the seat.
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When asked whether he had yielded to pressure from the APC to step down for the preferred party choice, Senator Ahmed Lawan, shocked Ndume responded, “Me, step down? I am still consulting.”
Also speaking on the rumours that he was banking on forging an alliance with the PDP, Ali-Ndume ruled it out on the grounds that the opposition considered him to be an “enemy.”
He stated, “Me that is regarded as an enemy by the opposition?”
Recall that Ndume was a former member of the PDP, but he later defected to the APC ahead of the 2015 polls. He also won re-election to the Senate this year on the platform of the APC.